The most interesting line from this reading for me was the following : “The 1970s TV viewer was a relatively anonymous part of a one- way ideological system functioning largely at a macro level, but the 2010s social media user is constantly registered, addressed, and compelled to participate as a series of discrete and distributed data points.” This line details some of the important differences between the the past and current day of media interaction. As we discussed in class flow can be movement through things and interactions between them. In the age of social media flow is reimagined in the complex and data heavy interactions between media and users. For example on Instagram an “influencer” will create a great variety of data points about themselves in the making of their account, they will also create and share another flow of data and media in the form of posts. Users of Instagram can them very directly interact with this flow by giving their opinions through comments and likes, which is again another production of data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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